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JULIUS CÆSAR.-Scarlet toga, buff hose, scarlet sandals.

MARK ANTONY.-White toga, buff hose, and black sandals. Second dress:-Scarlet and gold Roman uniform.

OCTAVIUS CÆSAR.-Scarlet toga, scarlet sandals.

BRUTUS, and all the Conspirators. -White toga, buff hose, and black sandals. Second dress:-Scarlet and gold Roman uniforms.

LICTORS.-Scarlet Roman costume, trimmed with orange.
PLEBEIANS.-Drab and brown common dresses.

CALPHURNIA.--White and silver.

PORCIA.-White and gold, with a scarlet robe.

Cast of the Characters,

As performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, 1827.

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The Conductors of this Work print no Plays but those which they have seen acted. The Stage Directions are given from personal observation, during the most recent performances.

EXIUS AND ENTRANCES.

R. means Right; L. Left; R. D. Right Door; L. D. Left Door; C. D. F. or M. D. Centre Door in the Flat; R. D. F. Right Door in the Flat; L. D. F. Left Door in the Flat, or the Scene running across the back of the Stage; R. S. E. Right Second Entrance; R. U..E. Right Upper Entrance; L. S. E. Left Second Entrance: L. U. E. Left Upper Entrance.

RELATIVE POSITIONS.

R. means Right; L. Left; C. Centre; R. C. Right of Centre;

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***The Reader is supposed to be on the Stage facing the Audience.

JULIUS CÆSAR.

ACT I.

SCENE I.-Rome. - A Street. A great Tumult without. Enter Casca and TREBONIUS, R. meeting Plebeians from L.

Cus. (c.) Hence; home, you idle creatures, get you home!

Is this a holiday? What! know you not,
Being mechanical, you ought not walk,
Upon a labouring day, without the sign
Of your profession?-Speak, what trade art thou ?

First Ple. Why, sir, a carpenter.

Tre. (R.) Where is thy leather apron, and thy rule?

You, sir; what trade are you?

Second Ple. (R. c.) Truly, sir, in respect of a fine workman, I am but, as you would say, a cobbler.

Tre. But what trade art thou ? Answer me directly. Second. Ple. A trade, sir, that, I hope, I may use with a safe conscience; which is, indeed, sir, a mender of bad soals.

Cas. (c.) What trade, thou knave? thou naughty knave, what trade?

Second. Ple. Nay, I beseech you, sir, be not out with me: yet, if you be out, sir, I can mend you.

Cas. What mean'st by that? Mend me, thou saucy fellow ?

Second. Ple. Why, sir, cobble you.
Tre. Thou art a cobbler, art thou?

Second. Ple. Truly, sir, all that I live by is the awl: I meddle with no trade-man's matters, nor woman's matters but with awl. I am, indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes; when they are in great danger, I re-cover them. As proper men as ever trod upon neats-leather have gone upon my handy-work.

Tre. But wherefore art not in thy shop to-day ? Why dost thou lead these men about the streets ?

Second Ple. Truly, sir, to wear out their shoes, to get myself into more, work. Bnt, indeed, sir, we make holiday to see Cæsar, and to rejoice in his triumph.

Cas. (L. C.) Wherefore rejoice? what conquest brings he
home?

What tributaries follow him to Rome,
To grace in captive bonds his chariot wheels ?
You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!
O, you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome,
Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft
Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements,
To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops,
Your infants in your arms, and there have sat
The live-long day, with patient expectation,
To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome;
And, when you saw his chariot but appear,
Have you not made a universal shout,
That Tyber trembled underneath his banks,
To hear the replication of your sounds,
Made in his concave shores ?

And do you now cull out a holiday!
And do you now strew flowers in his way,
That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood?

Be gone;

Run to your houses, fall upon your knees,
Pray to the gods to intermit the plague

That needs must light on this ingratitude.

Tre. (c.) Go, go good countrymen; and, for this fault,

Assemble all the poor men of your sort ;

Draw them to Tyber banks, and weep your tears

Into the channel, till the lowest stream

Do kiss the most exalted shores of all.

[Exeunt Plebeians, R.

Cas. See, whe'r their basest metal be not moved ;

They vanish tongue-tied in their guiltiness.

Go you down that way towards the capitol;
This way will I.-Disrobe the images,

If you do find them deck'd with Cæsar's trophies.

Tre. (R.) May we do so!

You know it is the feast of Lupercal.

Cas. (L.) It is no matter:

These growing feathers pluck'd from Cæsar's wing,

Will make him fly an ordinary pitch;

Who, else, would soar above the view of men

And keep us all in servile fearfulnes.

Exeunt Casca. L. Trebonius, n.

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SCENE II.-Rome. - A Public Place. - Music. - The SOOTHSAYER discovered at an Altar.

Enter in Procession, Standards of S. P. Q. R.-Priests, Senators, DECIUS, METELLUS, CINNA, POPILIUS, LENAS, CASSIUS, TREBONIUS, CASCA, CLITUS, SERVIUS, STRATO PINDARUS, TITINIUS, FLAVIUS, BRUTUS, LUCIUS, VARRO, Virgins, CALPHURNIA, Matrons.

[Great Shouts.]

Enter Lictors, LEPIDUS, JULIUS CÆSAR, ANTONY, Standards, a Star, Golden Eagles, Silver Eagles, and Guards. BRUTUS, CASSIUS, and TREBONIUS stand R.

Cas. (c.) Calphurnia

Ant. Peace, ho! Cæsar speaks.
Cas. Calphurnia-:

Cal. Here, my lord.

Cæs. Stand you directly in Antonius' way,

When he doth run his course. - Antonius!
Ant. (L. c.) Cæsar, my lord.

Cas. Forget not, in speed, Antonius,
To touch Calphurnia; for, our elders say,
The barren, touched in this holy chase,
Shake off their sterile curse.

Ant. I shall remember :

When Cæsar says, Do this, it is performed.

[Music ceases.

Cæs. Set on; and leave no ceremony out. [Music. Sooth. (L. U. E.) Cæsar!

Cas. Ha! Who calls?

Ant. (L. c.) Bid every noise bestill:-Peace yet again.

[Music stops.

Cæs. Who is it in the press, that calls on me?

I hear a tongue, shriller than all the music,
Cry, "Cæsar:" Speak; Cæsar is turn'd to hear.
Sooth. Beware the ides of March.

Cas. What man is that?

Bru. (R.) A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of

March.

Cæs. Set him before me; let me see his face.

Cas. Fellow, come from the throng: look upon Cæsar.
[Lictors, Guards, &c. make way for the SOOTHSAYER.
Cæs. What say'st thou to me now? Speak once again.
Sooth. (L.) Beware the ides of March.

Cæs. He is a dreamer; let us leave him; -pass.

Music. Exeunt R. U. E. all but Brutus and Cassius.

Cas. (R.) Will you go see the order of the course.
Bru. (c.) Not I.

Cas. I pray you, do.

Bru. I am not gamesome; I do lack some part

Of that quick spirit that is in Antony.
Let me not hinder, Cassius your desires :

I'll leave you.

Cas. Brutus, I do observe you now of late : 1 have not from your eyes that gentleness, And show of love, as 1 was won't to have: You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand Over your friend that loves you.

Bru. Cassius,

Be not deceived: If I have veil'd my look,
I turn the trouble of my countenance
Merely upon myself. Vex'd I am,
Of late, with passions of some difference,
Conceptions only proper to myself,

Which give some soil, perhaps, to my behaviours;
But let not therefore my good friends be grieved ;-
Among which number, Cassius, be you one ;-
Nor construe any further my neglect,
Than that poor Brutus, with himself at war,

Forgets the shows of love to other men.

Cas. Then, Brutus, I have much mistook your pas

sion;

By means whereof, this breast of mine hath buried
Thoughts of great value, worthy cogitations.
Tell me, good Brutus, can you see your face?

Bru. No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself,

But by reflection, by some other things.

Cas. 'Tis just:

And it is very much lamented, Brutus,
That you have no such mirrors, as will turn
Your hidden worthiness into your eye,
That you might see your shadow. I have heard,
Where many of the best respect in Rome-
Except immortal Cæsar-speaking of Brutus,
And groaning underneath this age's yoke,
Have wish'd that noble Brutus had his eyes.

Bru. Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius,
That you would have me seek into myself
For that which is not in me?

Cas. (R. C.) Therefore, good Brutus, he prepared to hear:

And, since you know you cannot see yourself

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